Manuscript leaves from the Descent of Man and Insectivorous Plants with the autograph manuscript of an unpublished article

Item author: Charles Darwin
Item date: 1871 - 75
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 35,000
Item date acquired: 1992
Item institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

One leaf from The Descent of Man and six from Insectivorous Plants. The leaf from The Descent is in the hand of an amanuensis but has corrections in Darwins hand. It was his practise to reuse paper and this passage is written on the back of the autograph draft of a letter. The pages from Insectivorous Plants are entirely autograph with many alterations. On the verso of these leaves is an article entitled Breeds and Breeding, intended for an encyclopaedia, but it seems to have remained unpublished